RealClearBooks Week of May 19, 2025 Archives

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Monday, May 19
What Were We Thinking?
James B. Meigs City Journal
How the Thunder Became More Than Just Noise
Michael Pina The Ringer
We Don’t Have Any Reserves
Adam Morgan Los Angeles Review of Books
Conservatives—& Everyone Else—Should Read Novels
Christopher J. Scalia Dispatch
The Night Britney Premiered “Toxic” In Vegas
Jeff Weiss GQ
Performance Art
Lovia Gyarkye The Nation
United We Fall
Jonny Thakkar The Point
Form and Problem-Solving
Jack Rockwell Cleveland Review of Books
City on the Edge
Stephen Pimentel IM—1776
How To Age Disgracefully
Christopher Gage Oxford Sour
The American Pope
Emile Doak Commonplace
Why Are We Mad at the Football Coach’s Girlfriend?
Constance Grady Vox
What Is the Sexual Wellness Industry Trying to Tell Us?
Magdalene Taylor Substack
Wasting Away in Wind-and-Solarville
James Varney Real Clear Investigations
Wes Anderson on the Darkness at the Heart of His Films
Bilge Ebiri Vulture
Vanishing Male Writers: What The Data Shows
Michael Mohr The Republic of Letters
The Pathological Ironist
Robbie Millen Air Mail
The Anti-Tech Canon: 30 Books
Ted Gioia The Honest Broker
What Makes a Pope a Man?
Tom Sarrouf Jr. Modern Age


Tuesday, May 20
Colum McCann’s Limp Novel of Digital Life
Katy Waldman The New Yorker
The Master of Guise
Win McCormack The New Republic
The A.I. Mind Meld
Nic Rowan The Lamp Magazine
The Time of Return
Rhian Sasseen The Baffler
If Nabokov Went to Comicon…
Bill Coberly The Bulwark
Country, Southern Rap & Sunburn
Meaghan Garvey Billboard
War of Angels
Mark Granza IM—1776
The Performance of Life
A. Jay Adler The Metropolitan Review
Welcome to Casino Capitalism 2.0
John Semley The Nation
School’s Out Forever
Noam Blum Commentary
An MFA Nightmare
Autumn Widdoes The Republic of Letters
Learning to Be Social
Sally J. Scholz The American Scholar
Is a River Alive?
Mark Dery 4Columns
Carlos Alcaraz Keeps Smiling At Jannik Sinner’s Expense
Owen Lewis Defector
A Timely Reckoning
Hamilton Cain Chapter 16
Art, Religion, and Culture in the ’80s
Mark Judge Chronicles
Becoming a Deficit Nation
Will Morrisey Civitas Institute
All the Words Fit to Print
David Deavel The Imaginative Conservative


Wednesday, May 21
Millennial Malaise
Stephen G. Adubato RealClearBooks
Kenny Smith Isn’t Going Fishing Yet
Charles Bethea The New Yorker
Where Will the Next Literary Movement Come From?
Greta Rainbow Dirt
The Wonder Of A Small-Town Theater
Addison Del Mastro The Deleted Scenes
Your Chatbot Won’t Cry If You Die
River Page The Free Press
Newspapers Are Recommending AI-Hallucinated Novels
Lincoln Michel Substack
He Was a Dandy, Alright
Patrick Cooke Washington Free Beacon
Pirates of the Ayahuasca
Sarah Miller n+1
Smoke Signals
Mike Solana Pirate Wires
Meet the New Pope, Same as the Old Popes
Titus Techera Fusion
Time to Rethink Martin Amis
Jonny Ford The Critic
Would You Pay $10,000 to Find a Husband?
Magdalene J. Taylor The Cut
Recurring Screens
Nora Claire Miller The Paris Review
The Case for Literary Craft
Brett Puryear The Republic of Letters
Political Bias And Double Standards On Wikipedia
Staff RealClearPolitics
The Stunning Transformation of Julius Randle
Rob Mahoney The Ringer
The Brock Purdy Extension Take
Ethan Strauss House of Strauss
Can We Cure Traumatic Brain Injuries?
Pamela Paresky Habits of a Free Mind
The Full Life of Empty Rural Spain
Lenny Wells Front Porch Republic
The Publishers Who Don't Run Away
Derek Krissoff Substack
Why Did ESPN Have to Cancel Around the Horn?
Jake Nevins Intelligencer


Thursday, May 22
An Ode to ‘Mission: Impossible’
Miles Surrey The Ringer
What’s Really Startling About the Bill Belichick Affair
Louisa Thomas The New Yorker
On Morgan Wallen
Meaghan Garvey Pitchfork
A Couple Without Qualities
Conor Truax Southwest Review
How AI Will Harm Working-Class Families
Brad Wilcox & Grant Martsolf Compact
The Pursuit of Male Friendship is Horrifying
Magdalene J. Taylor Many Such Cases
The Enigma of Samuel Clemens
John Jeremiah Sullivan Harper's
How to Win American Citizenship
Kat Rosenfield UnHerd
Lewd, Problematic, and Profoundly Influential
Jeremy Lybarger The New Republic
The Art of the Critic
Nick Ripatrazone The Metropolitan Review
To Insist on the Miraculous is to Deny the Machine
Damir Marusic Wisdom of Crowds
Do We Really Need a ‘Male Writers Only’ Book Publisher?
Josiah Gogarty GQ
Never Forget
Santiago Ramos Commonweal
Lawfare Is a Bad Way to Set Education Policy
Helen Andrews Commonplace
Is There Still a Republic?
Ben R. Crenshaw Civitas Institute
Pavement Made Music About Selling Out
Christopher J. Lee Jacobin
Buckley the Maestro
Jacob Heilbrunn The American Conservative
The Benefits of Expertise — and Its Limitations
Fabian Wintersberger Daily Economy


Friday, May 23
Glass Century
Ross Barkan RealClearBooks
The Impossible Mission of Ending a Franchise
Adam Nayman The Ringer
The Rot at Disney Goes Deep
Steven Watts Compact
The Future of Reading
Wessie du Toit First Things
Can Indie Novels Save Our Minds?
Matthew Gasda UnHerd
The Work of Magazine Dreams
Oliver Bateman Oliver Bateman Does the Work
Can Criticism Survive Outside the University?
Multiple authors The Point’s Substack
ChatGPT Is a Gimmick
Jonathan Malesic Hedgehog Review
Close Reading Is For Everyone
Dan Sinykin Defector
The Point of Pissing People Off
Tara Isabella Burton Wisdom of Crowds
Can Tom Cruise Ever Stop Being Ethan Hunt?
Alexander Larman Prospect
On Sophie Madeline Dess’s 'What You Make of Me'
GD Dess Hobart
The Clash Within Civilizations
Heather Mac Donald The New Criterion
Jamieson Webster’s Elegant Meditation
Rachel Connolly The New Republic
Dave Barry Is 77 and Still a Clown, Here to Amuse You
Dwight Garner NYTimes
Michael Arkush's Excellent "The Golf 100"
John Tamny RealClearMarkets
21 Hottest Books of Summer 2025
Staff Kirkus Reviews
“Secret Mall Apartment,” a Protest for Place
Jack Hunter Modern Age
Planned Man's Links of the Day
Podcast: Automation on the Docks by City Journal
Available this week: "The Sleepers" by Matthew Gasda
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